There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.

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The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret

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Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

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You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

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I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

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Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

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A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.

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Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that’s the only reason for having anything.

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Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

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